breastfeeding and consumption of ultra-processed foods from the perspective of racial inequality: an ecological outline

• Autor(a) principal: Soares, Thalita
• Data de Publicação: 2024
• Outros Autores: de Paiva Lourenção, Luiz Felipe, Bissoli, Marcos Coelho
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Baiana de Saúde Pública (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://rbsp.sesab.ba.gov.br/index.php/rbsp/article/view/3892
• topic: Amamentação; Alimentos industrializados; Comportamento alimentar; Fatores raciais; Racialismo; Nutrição; Alimentação; Aleitamento materno; Desigualdade racial; Lactancia materna; Alimentos industrializados; Conducta alimentaria; Factores raciales; Racismo; Breast feeding; Industrialized foods; Feeding behavior; Race factors; Racialism

This article aimed to evaluate information about the food consumption and breastfeeding of children in the municipality of Alfenas, Minas Gerais, and to verify related factors such as ethnicity and age group. Longitudinal ecological epidemiological study, with data collected by the Web Food and Nutrition Surveillance System (SISVAN Web) and analyzed using proportions and monthly median counts. A confidence level of 95% (p<0.05) was accepted for the analyses carried out with the support of the statistical computational package R. There were 2,377 records for the food consumption markers, with 25% (95%CI: 16.67–36.06) absence of exclusive breastfeeding and 50% (95%CI: 50.00–66.67) consumption of ultra-processed foods. Furthermore, the markers were associated with ethnicity, with non-white ethnicity having the highest health risk, in the proportion of 63.9% for the absence of exclusive breastfeeding and 77.5% for the highest consumption of ultra-processed foods. The results regarding the consumption of ultra-processed foods and the absence of exclusive breastfeeding for the municipality of Alfenas, Minas Gerais, are positively higher than the national averages, emphasizing the inadequate eating behavior in relation to the racial issue.